P235K illegal logs seized in Surigao

POLICE and environmental authorities seized on Monday some P235,000 worth of illegal logs and arrested a suspect during an anti-illegal logging operation in a remote village in Lianga town in Surigao del Sur. Police Supt. Michael Lozada, spokesman of Caraga Police, said that police and the Department on Environment and Natural Resource (DENR) received information that illegal lumber was to be transported in the area that resulted in the seizure of 3,920 board feet of mancono lumber on board a wing van being driven by one Tony Dionela, of Davao City.